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• Youngest of six children.
• Lived in a small town of a few hundred individuals.
• Limited access to education, but parents stressed the value of learning, helping others
and Bandura internalized this.
• Attended UBC as an undergraduate and became interested in psychology due to random circumstances.
• Arrived early to campus as a part of a carpool and took a psych class to pass the time.
• Specifically, learned about Skinner's behaviorism and wanted to challenge the idea that we are merely a product of external forces.
• Attended university of Iowa for graduate school studies in experimental psychology.
Focus on experiments, bidirectional relationship between individual and environment, learning through observation.
• After graduation, got a teaching position at Stanford, where he has remained for his career.
Also served as president of the APA.
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